Record Details
page 575
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 575 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville, Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah : Appendix A Review Comments, page 575 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 575 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; downstream accretions of salts this is another reason why the exportation of high altitude tributary waters from the green river basin to the bonneville basin will cause an increase in salinity at lake mead and decrease salinity in bodies of water to be used by people in the bonneville basin escalante in 1776 noted that in the colorado river basin there are several natural springs highly degraded by heavy salt loads it has been estimated that as much as 50 of the rivers total salt load may be coming from natural sources although the colorado river compact of 1922 which divided the consumptive use of the rivers waters between the upper and lower basins is silent on the subject of water quality that relatively simple principle of salt concentration from water consumption or water removal from a stream was common knowledge long before the compact was executed the compact therefore can only be interpreted as being practicable because it was based upon an understanding by the compact negotiators negotiatory that as the upper basin states continued to develop their legal apportionments of consumptive use of water there would be less water delivered to the lower basin with higher concentrations of salts without such an understanding there could have been no compact there is no equity in assigning the blame for the salinity problem of the colorado river to the bonneville unit nor is it equitable to use the in evitable small increment of water quality degradation attributed to the unit as the guillotine to decapitate social and economic development in the state of utah responsible water quality and water resource representatives of all seven states of the colorado river basin have recognized these truths and the fact that the salinity problem is basin wide with responsibility for its resolution lying in the federal government and all seven states not in one state or one project or the bonneville unit of the central utah project officially designated representatives of both water quality and water resource interests of all seven basin states acting through the official conferees of 575 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/5479 |
